Exam 14: Where Do Our Relatives Come From and Why Do They Matter

Which of the following are observations about kinship?

In a country like Peru, where social safety nets for poor people have been seriously undermined by neoliberal economic reforms as well as by war, the orphanage has come to serve as a refuge where many desperate poor parents might "circulate" a child temporarily if, for reasons beyond their control, neither they nor their relations are able to care for that child.

What term refers to groups whose members' knowledge of one another does not come from regular face-to-face interactions but is based on shared experiences with national institutions, such as schools and government bureaucracies?

Friendship has been easy for anthropologists to study because they have concentrated on trying to find regular longterm patterns of social organization in societies with noncentralized forms of political organization.

The relatively "unofficial" bonds that people construct with one another that tend to be personal, affective, and often a matter of choice are collectively referred to as

Anthropologist Daniel Smith explored how changes in Igbo ideas about marriage, romance, intimacy, and premarital sex intersect with older ideas about parenthood, gender inequality, and how male extramarital sexual relationships put married women at serious risk for contracting HIV/AIDS from their husbands.

The postmarital residence rule requiring a couple to live with, or near, the husband's mother's brother is called

Marriage patterns

Identify the seven criteria most often drawn upon in the construction of kinship terminologies. Illustrate each with an example and describe why the criterion is important for understanding human relationships. Which of these are most dominant in your home society?

In polygynous families, children of different wives are never jealous of one another, since they learn to think of all the wives as "mothers" who are equally concerned about their welfare.

For woman marriage to be possible, a society must recognize a distinction between

The principle based on culturally recognized parent-child connections that define the social categories to which people belong is called

Describe the four major rules for postmarital residence? What are some of the social, economic, and political consequences that follow from observance of each residence rule? Provide examples in your discussion.

Among migrant workers both women and men are equally productive wage earners, therefore

Bridewealth refers to the transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride on the occasion of their marriage. It represents compensation to the wife's lineage for the loss of her labor and her childbearing capacities.

Since friendship does not occur through blood lines it is not considered a kind of relatedness.

Which of the following cultural beliefs reinforce the practice of polyandry by the Nyinba?

Marriage rules are always subject to some negotiation, as illustrated by the marriage practices of the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert.

For many decades, kinship studies were based on the assumption that all societies recognize the same basic biological relationships between mothers and fathers, children and parents, and sisters and brothers.

The institution that transforms the status of the participants, carries implications about permitted sexual access, the position of offspring in the society and establishes new kin connections is